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also enlighten us as to ancient land areas now submerged. His 

 analysis of bones of mammals from Indian sites in Cuba and 

 Santo Domingo will, for this reason, be valued not only by the 

 systematist, but also by those who are concerned with these 

 wider problems. Mr. Miller has himself, in this paper, which 

 is chiefly concerned with the bones of extinct rodents, drawn 

 deductions of great interest as to the former connection of these 

 islands with the mainland. 



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ANTHROPOLOGY. By A. G. Thacker, A.R.C.Sc. 



A new periodical was founded last year in the United States, 

 which is to be specifically devoted to the problems arising 

 out of the contact of the negro and the white man, more par- 

 ticularly, of course, the questions which thus confront America. 

 The new publication is entitled The Journal of Negro History, 

 is published quarterly, and is under the editorship of Mr. Carter 

 G. Woodson. It is to be sold at the modest price of one dollar 

 per annum. 



The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute for the 

 second half of 191 6 (vol. xlvi. part ii.) contains a number 

 of articles of considerable interest to the student of social, as 

 distinct from physical, anthropology. The first contribution 

 is the Huxley Memorial Lecture for 191 6, which was delivered 

 by Sir J. G. Frazer, and dealt with the subject of " Ancient 

 Stories of a Great Flood." The lecturer described in detail 

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